William Steigerwalt was renamed police chief and given an hourly pay hike of 35 cents, from $6.35 to $6.70. Machine operators were given hourly raises of 35 cents to $6.10, but laborers remained the same as last year at $5.75 an hour. The township's two part-time police officers' pay was also increased from $5.85 to $6.30 an hour. An extra paid holiday, Thanksgiving Day, was approved by the three-man board, bringing the yearly total to seven.

Other appointments approved were Miners Bank and the Home Saving Association, both of Tamaqua, depositories for township funds; the law firm DeSantis and Menconi, solicitor; Marlin J. Zehner, named to planning commission to fill the term of the Rev. James Seifert, who resigned, and Frank Huet, renamed to the commission.